If you’re like me and are a DBA in the UK with a penchant for
MySQL or Oracle, you’ll know we have a smörgåsbord of conferences
here next week. We’ve been waiting, and like buses two have come
at once. We have the UK Oracle User Group Conference 2012, in
Birmingham on 3rd – 5th [...]

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MySQL

Blame it on MyISAM, says Mark
Callaghan of High Availability MySQL, on considering sql_mode
and type coercion. “I think that MyISAM has its place,” writes
Mark. “It does fast table scans, but InnoDB is much faster on
just about everything else. I am just not thrilled with the
impact it …

OpenSQLCamp 2009 is happening “in parallel to the
Free and Open Source Conference 2009 (FrOSCon) on Saturday 22nd
and Sunday 23rd August in St. Augustin, Germany …. close to Bonn
and Cologne.”

I plan on being at FrOSCon and OpenSQLCamp. Where I go before and
after that is up to *you*. Yes, that is right, perhaps I will
visit a user group, such as France’s MySQL User Group. Or perhaps your company
needs the type of services Pythian can offer — we can do the
“traditional …

If so, you should check out OpenSQLCamp
2009, European Edition. November last year, the home of
OpenSQL Camp was Charlottesville, VA, but now it is time to have
something a bit more local. OpenSQL Camp will take place Saturday
22nd and Sunday 23rd of August, in St. Augustin, Germany, so it
could do for a nice August getaway to Germany.

It’s not really the biggest of cities, but then again, that is
part of the charm, going to some small city and learning more
about databases.
In case you do happen to be curious, feel free to check out the
…

The Malta MySQL User Group (MMUG) met for the second time this
Thursday, and compared to last time, we had a much better venue:
Ixaris
Systems let us use their board room, so we had all the tools
we needed to have a good meeting.

We managed to get a group picture before everyone has arrived, so
I guess we can call the people in this picture “early birds”.

Once we all arrived, however, Sandro Gauci from
EnableSecurity gave us a very interesting talk on
SQL Injection security, and general security flaws from a
developer …

So, we’re coming up on that time again. When I moved back to
Malta in order to work for Pythian one of the things that I wanted to do was
to involve myself more in the community. Currently, I’m doing
this by trying to keep an active blog with tips and tricks, good
standard knowledge, and just overall trying to enlighten people.
I’m also doing this by organizing a MySQL User Group here in
Malta.

We’re set to have our 2nd meeting this coming Thursday, the
28thof August, in Ta’ Xbiex where we have graciously been …

I am traveling to Europe next week to brief major prospects in
Germany (Daimler, MAN) as well as to attend to administrative
matters at Pythian Europe in Prague and would love to meet any
readers of this blog during this trip!

So, the Malta MySQL User Group has had its first ever meet-up
today, and it was a success! When organizing it, I had no clue
how many people would show up, people have said “yes” and then
changed to “no”, and vice versa.

Anyway, so the morning came, and I sent out a few confirmation
emails, and it suddenly dropped down to just three of us, which
was a shame. Anyway, around 5pm, I noticed that there was four
more that had just said they wanted to attend. Unfortunately, one
of those dropped out, but it was still a great turnout.

This is a great opportunity for us to promote MySQL use in Malta,
as well as share experience and knowledge. Also just …

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